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Hard Drive Abuse

Ok, whenever I dispose of a HDD, I like to dismantle it to get the rare earth magnets out...

This particular HDD (3ish gig) was well on its way out, so I thought I'd make a quick video called hard drive abuse It's surprising how powerful the motor is in a hard drive. After I made this vid (with the video function on my canon powershot G5) the hard drive was definitely ready for the bin! (minus the magnet) More fun than just binning it straight away

lol, glad you like it. The weird stuff on the platters is actually the result of me messing around with a bit of blu tac...The heads then seemed to like to go and polish it again, it was quite amusing. (and I was bored)

Yeah I can't believe the things actually work either, especially when you see the read heads just instantly flick to exactly the right place on the disk to read the data. Just leaves me thinking...how the heck did it do that?